Earlier this week, the commander of African union peace keeping forces in Somalia urged several African countries to speed up their promised deployment of troops to help secure Mogadishu.

本周早些时候，驻索马里非盟长官催促几个非洲国家，希望他们加快所承诺的武装攻势，以帮助保卫摩加迪沙。

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But Uganda is the main provider of troops to the African Union Mission in Somalia.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

About 5,000 Burundian and Ugandan troops are stationed in Mogadishu as part of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, known as AMISOM.

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Ugandan Minister of Defense, Crispus Kiyonga, said the African Union force, composed of 2,590 Ugandan troops and 1,600 from Burundi, has so far been able to defend the transitional government's state house, Mogadishu port and airport, but said reinforcements to al-Shabaab have created a difficult situation.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

While this was going on African Union troops were just a few miles away, they did nothing.

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We've made a huge contribution in terms of aid, we're providing logistical assistance to the African Union troops.

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Having lost everything, she no longer trusted anyone, even the African Union troops deployed in Darfur.

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